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System Properties Comparison Altibase vs. Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics vs. PostGIS vs. SWC-DB

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NameAltibase  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft Azure Synapse Analytics infopreviously named Azure SQL Data Warehouse  Xexclude from comparisonPostGIS  Xexclude from comparisonSWC-DB infoSuper Wide Column Database  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionAn enterprise grade, high-performance RDBMSElastic, large scale data warehouse service leveraging the broad eco-system of SQL ServerSpatial extension of PostgreSQLA high performance, scalable Wide Column DBMS
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMSSpatial DBMSWide column store
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMSTime Series DBMS
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Score1.02
Rank#189  Overall
#88  Relational DBMS
Score19.93
Rank#31  Overall
#19  Relational DBMS
Score21.72
Rank#29  Overall
#1  Spatial DBMS
Score0.08
Rank#364  Overall
#13  Wide column stores
Websitealtibase.comazure.microsoft.com/­services/­synapse-analyticspostgis.netgithub.com/­kashirin-alex/­swc-db
www.swcdb.org
Technical documentationgithub.com/­ALTIBASE/­Documents/­tree/­master/­Manualsdocs.microsoft.com/­azure/­synapse-analyticspostgis.net/­documentation
DeveloperAltibaseMicrosoftAlex Kashirin
Initial release1999201620052020
Current releasev7.3, 2023, August 20233.4.2, February 20240.5, April 2021
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infoOpen source edition discontinued with March 2023commercialOpen Source infoGPL v2.0Open Source infoGPL V3
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesnono
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Implementation languageC++C++CC++
Server operating systemsAIX
HP-UX
Linux
hostedLinux
Data schemeyesyesyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyes
XML support infoSome form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.nonoyesno
Secondary indexesyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLANSI SQL-92yesyesSQL-like query language
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
Thrift
Supported programming languagesC
C++
Java
C#
Java
PHP
C++
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresstored procedures and stored functionsTransact SQLuser defined functionsno
Triggersyesnoyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingSharding, horizontal partitioningyes infobased on PostgreSQLSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesyesyes infobased on PostgreSQL
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesno infodocs.microsoft.com/­en-us/­azure/­synapse-analytics/­sql-data-warehouse/­sql-data-warehouse-table-constraintsyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesnono
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardyesyes infobased on PostgreSQL

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